That’s right – Steuart was a captain in the 2nd Dragoons fo de woah. Ahhh, the irony.

]]>By: Donhttps://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/37-%e2%80%93-maj-innis-n-palmer/#comment-3389
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:15:44 +0000http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=1017#comment-3389Amusingly enough, it was one of Steuart’s own soldiers who captured him. That had to have ben embarassing.

Armstrong was one of three commanders who commanded soldiers in combat on both sides during the war. (No, unfortunately I don’t have the other two names out here in WA with me).

Thanks for posting this one, Harry, I’ve been looking forward to it!

]]>By: Bob Fugatehttps://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/37-%e2%80%93-maj-innis-n-palmer/#comment-3387
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:50:46 +0000http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=1017#comment-3387perhaps odder than that Buckner,Breckinridge, or Steuart would consider themselves Southern nationalists although their states didn’t secede, is that Captain F.C. Armstrong of the 2nd Dragoons in Major Palmer’s report, would resign his commission in the US Army the next month after Manassas to enter the Confederate Army, where he rose to general in the Western Theatre, serving prominently in Forrest’s cavalry
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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:24:06 +0000http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=1017#comment-3384[…] report of Major Innis Palmer mentions the capture of Confederate General George “Maryland” Steuart. Recently, I asked a […]
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